Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou (born 1937 in Rabat) is a French philosopher, novelist and playwright. He was a founding member of the philosophy department at the University of Paris VIII – Vincennes, and is Professor Emeritus at the École Normale Supérieure. His main works are Being and Event (1988), Logics of Worlds (2006) and The Immanence of Truths (2018).

See also M=O – Mathematics is Ontology.

$Alain Badiou - L\'Éclat de l\'absolu - Dialogues avec Alain Badiou$

Alain Badiou, Jana Ndiaye Berankova
L'Éclat de l'absolu – Dialogues avec Alain Badiou

2025

French edition

Suture Press

L'Éclat de l'absolu is a crucial work for anyone interested in Alain Badiou's thought. Through interviews conducted by philosopher and editor Jana Ndiaye Berankova, readers are invited to immerse themselves in a rich and nuanced dialogue exploring the major philosophical influences—Plato, Hegel, Sartre, Althusser, Lacan and Deleuze—that have shaped Badiou's thought.

Sometimes, We Are Eternal

2019

English edition

Suture Press

A collection of essays and interviews that provides an ideal introduction to Alain Badiou's thought.

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